TY - BOOK AU - Carl,Ann TI - A WASP among Eagles: a woman military test pilot in World War II SN - 1560988428 PY - 1999/// CY - Washington PB - Smithsonian Institution Press KW - Carl, Ann. KW - Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Aerial operations, American KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Women air pilots KW - United States KW - Women test pilots KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - Personal narratives N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index N2 - The memoir of a woman test pilot in World War II. The author belonged to a corps of women pilots on the home front who for the most part delivered planes and tested repaired ones. In her case, however, she experimentally tested the B-29 Superfortress and the Bell YP-59A jet fighter. After the war she became a journalist and sailor, sailing all the way to Turkey ER -